Legal Opinion
Union Free School District No. 6 v. New York State Human Rights Appeal Board
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 21, 1974PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJones, J.
This appeal presents another facet of the question whether under the Human Bights Law (Executive Law, art. 15) pregnancy and childbirth may be treated differently in an employment relationship from other instances of physical or medical impairment or disability. We have held that a personnel policy which singles out pregnancy, among all other physical conditions to which a teacher may be subject, as a category for special treatment in determining when leave from duty shall begin is prohibited by the proscriptions of our State’s Human Bights Law (Board of Educ. of Union Free School Dist. No.…
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3Cited by138 opinions
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